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Five killed in Sri Lanka bus blast 2 hours, 27 minutes ago
Suspected Tamil Tiger rebels have set off a powerful explosion aboard a bus, killing at least five people and wounding 50 others near Sri Lankan capital Colombo, the defence ministry said. A bomb ripped through the passenger bus as it travelled between Nittambuwa and Giriulla during the evening rush hour on the Colombo-Kandy highway. The traffic police said the blast forced the temporary closure of the A1, the main road between the capital and the central provincial town of Kandy. The bus immediately caught fire, eye witnesses said. `The bus was full of passengers at the time of the blast. It has still not been possible to identify the cause of the blast or the number of casualties,` military spokesman Brigadier Prasad Samarsinghe said. `This is the work of the LTTE (Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam)`, Samarasinghe said. Keheliya Rambukwella, the government`s defence affairs spokesman and the Minister of Policy Planning, added: `The historical evidence points the finger towards the Tigers for the blast. `These are signs of desperation in view of the defeats they have faced recently in the battlefield`. He said it was too early to determine if the blast was caused by a grenade or another form of explosion. The main hospital in Colombo was placed on alert for casualties. `We have sent 3 ambulances to the explosion site`, a spokesman at the local hospital at Wathupitiwala said. The bus attack came hours after the Tigers accused the government forces of penetrating into their area of control in the north triggering a mine. There was no immediate response from the Tigers to the military spokesman`s allegation. |
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